After last year's relentlessly energetic performance at the Boileroom, Hacktivist had a lot to live up to when they returned to the Guildford venue 12 months later this week (Monday December 8).

Asking the crowd who was there for the close of their 2013 tour, one of the band's two front men, Ben Marvin, then called on the fans to 'make it rowdier'.

What proceeded was another master class from the band on how to put on a high tempo live show and interact with fans, all this before they have even released their debut album.

They already look and perform like well established professionals. The crowd was singing along from the get go, as the band made their way through a set list of heavy riffs mixed with rap, often packed with a political agenda.

False Idols , self-titled track Hacktivist , and Unlike Us ensure the frenetic atmosphere does not die before they plunge into crowd favourite - and a reminder of one of the highlight's of last year's show - their version of Kanye West and Jay Z's Paris .

Relentless energy from Hacktivist at the Boileroom

The two lead singers, which includes J Hurley, are instrumental to the band's success, continuously managing to keep the crowd engaged, inciting mosh-pits and clambering on top of the barrier.

Even with the flailing limbs, it would be near on impossible to knock the smile off the fans' faces.

There is nothing subdued about their performance and they never stand too far back on the stage away from the out reached arms of the crowd, which does mean that the other musicians in the band get slightly lost in the wake of the electrifying front men.

However, they make enough noise through their ground rumbling 'djent' riffs to more than make up for it.

The energy fails to die down throughout the set, and the crowd are as crazy for new track, Deceive and Defy , as they are for the old songs.

This is helped when the lead singer of the more than impressive support act The One Hundred, joins the stage to prove that if done right, you can never have enough front men.

It is not long after closing the set with Elevate that the band are egged on by the crowed to come back with an encore.

Last year, they had ran out of songs and repeated Paris . This time round they are prepared for the crowd wanting to hear more, and gave them the brilliant treat of a Hacktivist spin on Luniz's I Got Five On It .

A year later, and the band have once again managed to put on one of the most entertaining fun shows at the Boileroom, and hopefully their success will continue for years to come.